More advice

Thankfully I remembered my own advice when zesting and juicing lemons again this week! Now here's another piece of advice: hot chicken soup and notebook computers don't belong together. 

Christmas is coming

My big tip for Christmas is save those gold coins through the year and when you have $20 (or better still$50) take them to whichever supermarket you like and buy a gift voucher. Put the voucher in a drawer so that at Christmas you have some "cash". It really helps, especially if you are doing Christmas baking - costs can be crazy!!! 

Invictus

A poem by W.E. Henley

Which I have loved for a long time. And which got me through some tough times.  

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishment the scroll,

I am the master of my fate;

I am the captain of my soul. 

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

And the things you learn from them…

 

1.     There are no random acts. We are all connected.

2.     Sacrifice is part of life. When you sacrifice something precious you don’t really lose it, you just pass it on to someone else.

3.     Holding anger is poison. It eats you from the inside.

4.     Life has to end. Love doesn’t.

5.     Our place in life is meant to be.

 

Each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. 

Lemon Zesting

Note to self - zest the lemon first. Then cut in half to juice. This is particularly important when you have a paper cut.